Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous